Potémont, Adolphe Martial (1828 - 1883) — Rue Mondétour, Paris. Original Etching

Paris: 1839. Etching. 41 x 27.8 cm. sheet size. Annotated in pencil: d'après mon dessin ad vivum 1839. Likely apocryphal since he would only have been 11 at the time. Before the printed text beneath the image. Old houses in the Rue Mondétour - Adolphe Martial Potémont An etcher and painter, Adolphe Théodore Jules Martial Potémont, who used the pseudonym Martial, is known for his etched views of Paris and its people. He studied under Léon Cogniet (1794-1880) and Félix Saturnin Brissot de Warville (1818-1892). Martial prepared suites of etchings and provided etched illustrations to journals and exhibited paintings. He exhibited at the Salons from 1846 until 1882. Martial's large oeuvre included 300 etched views of old Paris (published 1862-1866) before its reconstruction under Emperor Napoleon III (1803-1873). .